350 research outputs found
Challenges, Resources and Ethnic Identity Negotiation: The Perspective of Immigrant Women
No full textIn this chapter, we will address the issue of migration from women’s point of view. This study will consider the literature on reasons related to migration choices by considering gender differences. Furthermore, it will address the issue of acculturation, its relationship with well-being, and the stress of acculturation. Within this framework, we will discuss how immigrant women address the process of acculturation through the negotiation of their ethnic identity. The aim of this study was to understand the psychological, personal and relational dimensions of the acculturation process of immigrant working women in Italy. Additional objectives were to understand these women’s motivations for leaving their country of origin, to comprehend the challenges and resources used to address social and employment socialization, and to explore the ethnic identity negotiation of these women in their new country. One hundred and twenty immigrant working women participated in this study. A qualitative approach using in-depth interviews was employed. The guide topics were related to the motivations that led women to immigrate to Italy, the challenges they faced, the strategies used to overcome their problems and the process of ethnic identity negotiation. The analysis of the transcripts using NVivo 9 software revealed recurring themes presented in four models. The first indicates the motivations that led women to undertake migration. The second defines the challenges that immigrant women face in the new context. The third presents the resources used by women during the acculturation processes. Finally, the fourth represents ethnic identity negotiation processes
Adolescents at Risk: Comparing Italian and Immigrant Youth
No full textThis chapter analyzes the well-being of an at-risk adolescent population that has been poorly studied in the literature. Adolescents at psychosocial risk are on a developmental path characterized by crucial, moderating or precursor factors of distress and maladjustment.
This article presents results of a multi-methods study conducted to identify whether migratory status represented an additional critical factor along the developmental path of adolescents toward adaptation or maladjustment. Quantitative survey methods provided a background of descriptive information concerning adolescents at psychosocial risk adjustment, coping strategies, social support and ethnic identity, while qualitative methods offered richer, deeper understanding of these issues in relation to migration experience.
The study sample comprised 60 adolescents (M = 18.02 years; 45% Italians and 55% immigrant; 58.3% males and 41.7% females) at psychosocial risk. Each adolescent completed a questionnaire that analized their ability to adapt, their level of maladjustment, their coping strategies and their perceived level of social support.
10 young immigrants participated to in-depth interviews in order to thoroughly describe the meaning and complexity of this phenomenon in the interviewees’ own words
Studying Migration from Different Perspectives and with Different Techniques
No full textMigration can be considered a human strategy to improve life and can be defined as a natural behavior of human beings that has developed over time. The issue of migration is a particularly salient theme in this historical period and presents a new challenge for researchers in Europe and worldwide, particularly those researchers attempting to understand the patterns and processes of migration. Researchers of various disciplines have responded to the challenges related to migration using a variety of methodological tools to examine the phenomenon. In this chapter, the author presents qualitative techniques used in the social sciences and discusses their strengths and weaknesses when they are employed to study immigrant populations. Given the complexity of the migration phenomenon, the challenges that researchers must address include collaboration between disciplines and methodologies and the integration of methods. A multimethod, multilevel and multidisciplinary approach is used in an attempt to understand this multifaceted issue
Psicologia sociale delle relazioni familiari .Identità, progetti e traiettorie
No full textFamily, in a psycho-social perspective, can be considered challenged in epistemic sense: by its nature it is compared with the contexts of change, with the ability to adapt to life events that are varied and numerous. The family may be regarded as a "project" that turns to unify different situations, sometimes contradictory, going to define family "paths" increasingly differentiated and difficult to predict. These pathways may be dependent on life events not selected that people suffer all the consequences, or from events strongly desired that bring people to possible happiness or unhappiness.
The author outlines a scenario that includes the varied strategies of coexistence in which family meanings can be very different; along with a “liquid” love and society, the family no longer seems able to hold its form. The construction of its boundaries and relevant meanings, through the current multiplicity of family forms which each of us can experience simultaneously, is the main challenge relates to the ability of each to build and maintain links
Vivere con la mutazione genetica BRCA: implicazioni psicosociali e percezione del rischio di cancro
No full textScientific advances and new technologies in the field of genetic urge the deepening of the psychological effects that individual and family genetic diagnosis necessarily entails. The increased perception of being at risk of getting cancer as a result of the BRCA genetic test results to define a particular emotional state related to lifestyle choices possible and to live with a perception of high risk of cancer. Many authors argue that will arise more and more frequently psychological issues related to genetic diagnosis. This work illustrates the state of the literature on the particular psychological condition experienced by the individual in relation to the risk of hereditary cancer. It will be considered the recent case of Angelina Jolie that making public its genetic diagnosis, has explained the psychological implications and decision she lived. Living with BRCA1/2 mutation is, in fact, a challenge for the individual and for society in facing the new diagnostic tools, together with the old fear of the disease and the possibility to counter it
Intercultural Relations and Migration Processes
No full textInternational migration is an increasingly critical issue in the world today. In the international community, individual nations are struggling with the question of how to best manage migration. Immigration involves several challenges at the individual level and in the relationship with the host community. Migration is one of the most disorganizing individual experiences; it affects identity and well-being as migrants negotiate roles and cultural values. At the social level, immigration is related to relevant changes in community life and in the use of urban space and social welfare and involves demographic, educational, and sociological aspects. In our society, various positions make migration a complex phenomenon. Our chief intention is to open a dialogue on this crucial theme for human existence from the perspective of individual and collective experience and from the perspective of the scientific understanding of the phenomenon. Another challenge of the present book is to analyze this theme from different approaches to increase interdisciplinary connection. This book presents a study of migration and intercultural relationships from multiple viewpoints and from a multidisciplinary perspective through psychological, educational, sociological, anthropological, historical and geographical approaches. Moreover, the book addresses the main theoretical frameworks that characterize the international debate and analyzes intercultural challenges and opportunities that may arise in different areas and at different stages of the life cycle. The main constructs this book addresses are acculturation, negotiation, and integration in various contexts (e.g., family, school) and at different stages of life (e.g., minors, adolescents, parents). Furthermore, the book reflects on different typologies of migration (e.g., refugees, unaccompanied minors) and different methodologies to examine the phenomenon (e.g., videoethnography, in-depth interviewing, questionnaires, territorial and space analysis). Intercultural processes related to migratory movements are developed within interpersonal and social relations in the context of origin and in the host context. Intercultural relations and migration processes present a complex and rich picture of these issues and the problems related to the phenomenon, in which experience and national research data are intertwined with the acquisition of experience gained in the international arena.International migration is an increasingly critical issue in the world today. In the international community, individual nations are struggling with the question of how to effectively manage migration. Immigration involves several challenges at the individual level and in the relationship with the host community. Migration is one of the most disorganizing individual experiences; it affects identity and wellbeing as migrants negotiate roles and cultural values. At the social level, immigration is related to relevant changes in community life as well as in the use of urban space and social welfare, and involves demographic, educational, and sociological aspects. In our society, various positions make migration a complex phenomenon
La vita prevedibile: uno studio qualitativo su donne giovani sane che si sono sottoposte al test genetico BRCA
No full textA qualitative method to “make visible” the world of intercultural relationships: the photovoice in social psychology
No full textIn recent decades, the study of intercultural relations and the complexity of relationships due to the migration phenomenon have become more important for social scientists to analyze. The aim of this article is to show that photovoice, a methodology that belongs to the field of participatory action research, can be a useful qualitative tool in social psychology to analyze intercultural relationships. This method offers participants the opportunity to discuss and interpret their photographs in a group, involving people in a process of active listening and dialogue that can encourage policy makers to promote social change. Social psychology is encouraged to use photovoice to engage communities facing intercultural challenges; thus, a reappraisal of the Lewin tradition is necessary. Photovoice could be used to “make visible” and meaningful the world of intercultural relationships, eliciting the transformative power of qualitative research
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